The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-26
Palatka and Her Freights.

We made ON the a1st the statement
that from points along the Florida South
ern Railway shippers found it cheaper to
draw freight through our deep sand in
to Palatka than to ship ON that road.
One case in point was from Francis,
others are from various points within
our neighborhood. We learn officially
that the road cannot carry the freight
cheaper than it is now doing, viz:
green lumber eight dollars per thirty
thousand for five miles.
We also said: 1T is lamentable fact
that one-third of our freights from
Chicago are paid for the fifty-six mile
haul between us and Jacksonville.
While this continues we cannot hope
for the establishment of any wholesale
houses in Palatka-neither can we look
Tor freedom from this deadly incubus
to any influence now acting in our
favor. This may need a more explicit
statement. On first class freights from
Eastern points the tariff is soc. to Jack
sonville, and to point south, say San
ford BIC, making SIC. to Sanford via the
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Rail-
way. Now the same freight from the
anne point to a Palatka merchant would
be 12c. and from this point to Sanford
Bic, making clear discrimination
against Palatka of 1Sc. The same war
on. this city runs through all
classes of freight and will effectually kill
all our wholesale business in this direc-
ton until it is changed. The same is true
OF the boats now on the river: the con-
sumner at San Mateo, within five miles
oil Paiatka, pays the same freight from
this city he is charged from Jacksonville
and our merchant is taxed the cost of
transportation between us and Jackson
rafte for doing business an Pulatka. To
this subject our Board of Trade must i'm
mediiately devote its careful consider
alton.
1t will thus be seen that the rate from
Jacksonville to Palatka per 1OOB is asc.
and the discrimination against Palatka
or Sanford and points taking the same
rate Is 1sc.; therefore the difference is
only &c. and the Palatka rate is virtuaIly
gwen TO Sanford so far as our merchant
Is concerned. Ii the Jacksonville. Tam
pa and Key West can do this for Sanford
why cannot the Palatka merchant have
Jacksonville rates? Why should not the
boaru OF Trade correct the injustice
winch strikes us in such a vital point?
AS 10 what may be done on this point
we quote rates from the East over the
FLORIDA Southern thus making a COM
parison perfectly fair. From Jackson
vile to Citra the freight, first class, is
ooc. Now from Jacksonville to Palatka
II Is &c, and from Palatka to Citra it is
SsSc, thus making a clear..halance with no
discrimination against Palatka. This is
the policy of the Florida Southern as
contrasted with that of the Jacksonville
Iampa and Key West, and our mer-
chants should know and appreciate the
uiHerence as to freights. Through rates
from all points to all stations between
iiatka and Trabue, including landings
''' 'ne Lakes and on Charlotte Harbor,
are made on this basis, giving Palatka
'he same advantages as Jacksonville
as a distributing point. Thus from New
iork to Francis, Citra and all points
~uhin sixty miles the first-class rate is
*i.eoc- To Palatka it is re. and the To-
..ai freight Is 33c.-thus again proving
mat the Florida Southern makes no dis